Cecil leads, inside the Holy Light Church, Gawain found Wright with Amber and Pittman who had just come out of the alchemy laboratory.
At this time, Wright had replaced his badly damaged armor and put on a priest robe made of coarse cloth. Compared with the tired and gloomy appearance when he just returned to the territory, his mental state is obviously much better now. When Gawain led the people into the church, he was cleaning the shelf for classics in front of the pulpit, looking calm and indifferent.
But Gao Wen knew that the true peace and indifference had gone away from this pastor, and at this moment, he was just waiting to take over the cause of the Holy Light again.
Undoubtedly, accepting inspections and cooperating with research to help everyone understand the mystery of mortals bypassing gods to obtain the power of the Holy Light is also part of the Holy Light's cause.
"It seems that you have had a good rest these days," Gawain nodded and said, looking at Wright who had regained his energy, "How do you feel now? Are there any other changes in your body?"
"No, everything is fine, Holy Light is as usual," Wright showed a gentle smile, even though there was a shocking scar on his face, his smile still had a feeling of reassurance and trust, but then he wrinkled again Frowning, "But I don't know if it's an illusion. Recently, I always feel that something in the church...is different from before."
"The church is different from before?" Gao Wen asked curiously, "What's different?"
"It always feels like someone has entered the church," Wright confessed frankly, "but there is no one there."
As soon as these words came out, Gao Wen and Pittman subconsciously glanced at Amber who was standing next to him, wandering away.
The half-elf lady suddenly woke up from the distracted state, and then yelled: "Hey, what are you looking at me for?! I'm like the kind of person who casually sneaks into other people... casually sneaks into the Holy Light Church Who? I am the Shadow God! I have principles... "
Before Amber finished yelling at Gao Wen, she shook her head: "I also think this matter has nothing to do with you. The most valuable thing in this church is a few pieces of crystal glass, how can it attract your attention."
Amber nodded deeply, with a look of pride instead of shame, while Pittman next to him looked up and down Wright with an expression of interest: "Perhaps it is a little perceptual dislocation after breaking through the spiritual limit. Well... Interesting, a little interesting... "
Before Wright could speak, the little old man asked, "I heard that you have completely given up your belief in the God of Holy Light?"
Today, Wright has been able to face and talk about this topic naturally, and he nodded frankly: "I chose the right path in my opinion. An empty idol cannot uphold the justice of the Holy Light. God, I now believe more in the morals I believe in."
Pittman nodded: "Let me see your holy light."
Wright didn't hesitate, and opened his hands when he heard the words, and a hazy layer of clear light appeared beside him.
Looking at the radiance floating in the air, Gao Wen always felt that there was something flashing in the radiance, but when he looked carefully, it was just dust particles floating in the air.
Pittman didn't seem to notice this, he just carefully observed Wright's easy way of summoning the Holy Light, and asked in more detail: "You don't need to pray when you summon the Holy Light? Then there is a substitute Is it the casting process?"
"You don't need to cast spells just to call out the holy light to respond like this. It's similar to talent casting, but to use a relatively powerful holy light power, you still need the assistance of the spell-casting ceremony. It's just the step of praying to the gods that must be performed when releasing the divine spell." It has been omitted, and you need to use your own mental power to guide the holy light when casting spells. At first I didn’t quite adapt to it, but now I’m used to it.”
"It shows that you have a very good magical talent. Druids believe in one thing, that is, what the priests call 'spiritual talent' is actually a kind of magical talent," Pittman rubbed his beard, "Also, although you Now you can summon quite high-strength and pure holy light, but the holy light skills you can release should actually be very few?"
"Yes," Wright didn't wonder why Pittman knew such details, but just answered all the little old man's questions very cooperatively, "Praying to the gods is the most important part in the process of performing most of the magic spells." After omitting it, the remaining spellcasting prayers or spell models can hardly support a magic spell, so now I can only cast a very limited number of magic spells. Although their power seems to have become stronger, the types have indeed changed. not enough."
"It's because you're not a mage, and you don't know how to use the mage's method to deduce the spell model, so you have a powerful holy light, but you can't make good use of it... But it's not a problem. A lot of results have been researched in the field of conversion, and Kamel is an expert in this field. He should be able to help you improve those spellcasting skills... As for now, let us study how you can control the Holy Light by yourself... "
Gawain couldn't help asking beside him, "Is there anything in Wright's process of controlling the Holy Light in common with the druids back then?"
"To be honest, it's not the same..." Pittman frowned, "You should know that the end of the Druids' faith was due to the 'White Star Fall' incident, which can be said to be the ironclad evidence of the fall of the God of Nature. All Druids They all witnessed the fall of the God of Nature with their own eyes. Whether they wanted it or not, the druids lost their faith at that time, or lost the goal of their faith, and after that, the natural magic also directly failed. Wright, who mastered natural magic under pressure and restrictions from the gods, is different."
Speaking of this, Pittman glanced at Wright: "Even if you don't plan to believe in the God of Holy Light, you probably didn't see it die in front of you at that time, did you?"
Gao Wen couldn't help but sigh with emotion at this little old man's sharp and unique language skills. If Wright wasn't in front of him, any random believer in the Holy Light would be bloody at this time. Having lived to such an age, perhaps his original intention of learning Druid spells back then was to prevent him from being beaten to death on the spot after talking cheaply
And even though Wright had already broken free from the shackles of the God of Holy Light's belief, he was really awkward after hearing Pittman's simple and straightforward words, and then shook his head dumbfoundingly: "Of course I didn't see it... what was in my mind at the time Only your own emotions."
"This is the difference. When the Druids gained the ability to cast spells freely, the God of Nature was dead, and the magic of nature had already expired, and these are all certain facts, but is the God of Holy Light dead now? Holy Light Magic Did it fail? Apparently not."
In fact, Gao Wen really wanted to say that the God of Holy Light is really dead, not to mention the God of Holy Light, the God of War is also dead, the three gods of abundance are also dead, and even the God of Death is dead. I don’t know how this works in the end …
But it's a pity that he can only mutter in his heart. It's the same thing if others believe these facts, not to mention that he is not completely sure whether the seat of the God of Holy Light is vacant. After all, believers of the Holy Light Prayer is answered.
And he heard what the little old man meant from Pittman's words:
The reason why druids have the ability to cast spells freely is because the god of nature is really gone. Without the restraint of gods, druids can cast spells freely.
And Wright... He forcibly obtained the power of the Holy Light while the God of Holy Light was alive.
"There are also many druids who specialize in the history of the fall of the white star. We have always believed that the premise that mortals can transform the power of divine arts into magic and use it freely is that the corresponding gods fall and their binding power disappears," Peter said. Man looked at Wright, and the expression on his face gradually became serious, "But after seeing you, I came up with an idea that maybe the real breakthrough is not in God, but in mortals themselves."
"Is there another possibility?" Gawain decided to remind at this time, in order to prevent Pittman's deduction from going into a misunderstanding, "If the God of Holy Light has actually fallen like the God of Nature, It’s just that no one knows this, so every believer of the Light is in self-restraint…”
"...Ah, this is a bold idea," Pittman looked at Gawain in surprise, but after a while, he seriously thought about the possibility of this bold idea, "... Anyway, we don't believe in the God of Holy Light here. People, then we can boldly assume this conjecture, but there is still a problem that Wright still believes in the existence of the God of Holy Light when he broke through the shackles of faith?"
"Yes," Wright replied with a serious expression, "Even now, I think the God of Holy Light exists, even if I don't believe in it anymore."
"In any case, our inferences are heading in one direction. The so-called limitations of divine arts seem to exist only in our own hearts?" Pittman raised his eyelids, his expression a little confused, "Could it be that as long as a certain believer believes that he can If he is not restricted by the gods, he is really not restricted, and he can use the power corresponding to the magic spell by himself?"
"That's impossible," Amber shook her head in disbelief, "If it's really that simple, there should be a few priests in the world who have freed themselves over the years, and someone has successfully transformed divine arts into magic not long ago? I still remember that there was a holy light priest who tried to use a magic circle to control the holy light, didn't he also fail in the end... "
"Perhaps the level of 'self-affirmation' is not enough? Perhaps the mind has not been completely free from the influence of faith?" Pittman said his guess, and finally looked at Wright, "Do you still remember when you broke through the limitations of faith and obtained the Holy Light? Feelings and thoughts? Well... I know this memory may not be very good for you, but it's really important to our research."
"It's okay, I understand," Wright showed a gentle smile, then frowned slightly, recalling the moment that changed everything, and after a long time, he broke the silence, "I remember that I only had one very strong thought at that time... If God is not willing Believe me, I will believe in myself."
"If God is unbelievable, you believe in yourself?" Gao Wen repeated this sentence, "Just because of this idea?"
"It was just this thought, and it was the only thought I had at the time," Wright said. "My mind went blank, and there was just this thought that blew up, and then, driven by that thought, I completely dropped all dependence on God. And hope, for a moment... for a brief moment, I felt like I broke something, it was like a lock, and then when I realized it, I had regained the Holy Light."
Pittman stroked his beard again: "Did you break a lock..."
, it’s still a seedling, I mainly want to observe whether it will die of milk in this book...)